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What does missa mean?

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  1. (music) a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgical service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei and/or Sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome)
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As shown above, Bach combined the Kyrie and Gloria into the Missa, according to the common practice of that time.
Stubbings is a previous Master of the Music and Missa Stella Splendens is a festal congregational communion setting.
The Missa Choralis was written by Franz Liszt in 1865 while he was in Rome.
As with the old Missa Brevis, so too nowadays it's not strictly necessary to set the Credo to fresh music.
The Missa Sancti Dominici belongs, through its mooring with trumpets and drums, in the category of the missa solemnis.
The term missa has come to imply a 'mission', because at the end of the Mass the congregation are sent out to serve Christ.

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